Ty Hanson

But, yeah, as a baseline of can you be as, as good as the fourth line last year was, it's off to a good start.

Carter Murphy and Ty Hanson both listed as 5'9".

Scott Sandelin called them two mighty mites.

[laughs]

But before we do that, let's catch up on one news item that came out after we recorded last week.

And that's the first six players named To the team that will compete at the Spangler Cup, the U.S. Collegiate Selects, they named their first six, three defensemen, Tyler Dunbar, Ty Hanson, Evan Muir, excuse me, and Max Plant from Minnesota Duluth, and Hayden Stavroff from Dartmouth, the forwards, Lawton Zocker from Northeastern, the first goalie.

And for those unaware, any returning All-American gets an automatic invitation back.

Obviously, they don't necessarily have to accept it, but they do receive that automatic invite.

So you need some of those bigger, stronger guys to go in there.

But that's a pretty good start, and there are a lot of – intriguing available players around the country that the coaching staff and general the managerial staff is going to watch these guys as they go through their their first month of the year here to see who else they might want to add to that but you know I think when you're looking at building a team And you want a lot of different players with different makeups.

So I would not be surprised if we see some bigger defensemen who can skate and kill plays to join guys like Muir and Dunbar and Ty Hanson.

We'll talk a lot more Spangler as it draws closer, but we did want to touch on that before we moved on.

Just listen closely, 'cause I try to, when I'm talking to them, "Hey, you know, here, Zam, what do you think? Max, what do you think?" Going by name, a- and hopefully you can pick it up and recognize their voices as we go on.

And also you'll hear from junior defenseman and Bulldog co-captain Ty Hanson.

That's all next.

But first, the Bulldogs are indeed playing Long Island this weekend.

Here we go.

Player interview time.

We'll start with junior defenseman co-captain out of Hermantown, Minnesota, Ty Hanson.

Favorite thing you did this off-season, preferably that had nothing to do with the sport of hockey.

Guys, what were your takeaways from that experience?

[laughs] That we should have bought Ty Hanson that referee shirt.

There's still time, I guess.

Yeah.

But, uh, [laughs] I tend to agree.

We've been talking about this quite a bit this year, and, and whether Scott likes it or not.

Yeah, and I mean, he's got a group that is very competitive, and we've talked about that with, especially with the junior group, highlighted by the Plants and Ty Hanson and Adam Kleber, and all those guys that are, are just ultra-competitive.

And sometimes that's what face-offs come down to, is not the centerman winning it clean.

Just fantastic shutdown defenseman.

Ty Hanson is an electric offensive defenseman.

He's a junior.

Aaron Pionk's a senior.